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E. Günther, S. Köszegi:
"Gender Counts?! Analysis of Student Dropout at Vienna University of Technology";
Talk: GIEE HELENA Conference, Paris; 2011-06-23 - 2011-06-24; in: "Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers. Does Interdisciplinary Education improve the gender balance and attract more young people in Engineering and Technology higher education?", A. Béraud, A. Godfroy, J. Michel (ed.); Sense Publisher, (2012), 441 - 455.

Vienna University of Technology (VUT) has an extremely high student dropout rate of more than 50 percent in its curricula. This study analyses whether and to what extent socio-demographic factors increase the dropout risk at VUT. In particular, the study analyses whether academic integration, measured by several performance
indicators, decreases dropout for male and female students in the same way when other factors such as the field of study, age and nationality are controlled. The analysis is based on data from active students enrolled between 1998 and 2010 in thirteen science and technology disciplines. Logistic Regression models estimating
the dropout risk for the entire student population show that women face a substantially higher dropout risk than male students. Logistic Regression models for male and female subsamples further show, that academic integration does not reduce the dropout risk for female students to the same extent than it does for male students.
Policy makers are well advised to consider diversity aspects in designing curricula and principles of teaching. In order to attract and retain high potential candidates it is necessary to support their social integration at VUT.

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_208806.pdf